Childhood Memories

Real-Life Feel-Good Stories (from my own life) that I need to tell some day:

Unknown Skinny Man who pulled me off a burning lawn mower, carried me to the house, kept Mom and I from approaching it when it was about to explode, and then disappeared.

Black Man & Son in Chicago who threw me over a wall to save me from falling ice-chunks; near where I had been standing a small car was crushed by one, and pieces from it landed where I had been. They too disappeared before I could thank him.

Voice to “Go Limp!” during car crash, and the folks who cared for me. I was never able to find their house again.

When I honked ’til awakening a slumped-over driver on the freeway.

When I helped a lost driver find their way to SB and the Lord protected me.

When a Black Man & Son came to our apt. door (in M,W) and intervened from another man who had been stalking us.

When an Encyclopedia Sales-Kid came to C.H. and stayed ’til a stranger in a car left the neighborhood; the car-stranger had been following me on my bike.

When a dove showed me the way home from a mall in FW.

When a rotted stump saved my brother’s life.

The morning God gave me Tangible Joy.

When God save me from over-dose suicide-attempt.

Wow. There are so many more! Praise be Jesus; thank You, Lord; I bow to You; Your Mercies are unending.

Mostly I liked listening and sounding in my head. It was as though that process was rewarded with a printed word. Seeing the word as a result of listening was magical!

This is such a simple memory, but as it is such a powerful memory of pleasurable confidence, which was atypical of me in relation to test-taking, I am grateful to remember this consistently positive experience of performance, particularly in the context of a judged test.

And what fun to remember the delight in sounding out each newly learned word in my mind’s ear, hearing and savoring each luscious letter.